{"id":2641,"date":"2010-07-17T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2010-07-17T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T17:39:20","slug":"you-pick-your-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/you-pick-your-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"you pick your crap . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Alan Simpson objecting to what?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been under the weather for a bit and hadn&#8217;t seen this video until today. My guy appointed this man to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fiscalcommission.gov\/\">fiscal commission<\/a> currently meeting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fiscalcommission.gov\/meetings\/\">periodically<\/a> in our nation&#8217;s capital. Shame on them both.<\/p>\n<p>To my mind, the reference to &#8220;lesser people&#8221; that comes near the beginning of the interview is hardly the worst of it. Check Paul Krugman&#8217;s view of Simpson&#8217;s contributions to the fiscal commission&#8217;s deliberations <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/21\/zombies-have-already-killed-the-deficit-commission\/\">here<\/a>. The video is fairly long. Watch all of it to get the full benefit of Simpson&#8217;s view of the world.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BTZ7BN22vtM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BTZ7BN22vtM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Alan Simpson objecting to what? I&#8217;ve been under the weather for a bit and hadn&#8217;t seen this video until today. My guy appointed this man to the fiscal commission currently meeting periodically in our nation&#8217;s capital. Shame on them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/you-pick-your-crap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-alan-simpson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}